London on the ThamesLittle, Brown, 1966 - 435 Seiten Anecdotal tour of London that recreates social life and events during the days of Wren, Samuel Johnson, Churchill, Chaucer, and Oscar Wilde, etc. |
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... statue : 170 feet 2 inches . Sixteen different books on Lon- don give the height as anywhere from 145 feet to 193 feet , but this is the figure in the files of the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works . The memorial to Nelson was slow ...
... statue : 170 feet 2 inches . Sixteen different books on Lon- don give the height as anywhere from 145 feet to 193 feet , but this is the figure in the files of the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works . The memorial to Nelson was slow ...
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... statue was not paid for until repeated requests to Parlia- ment produced the money in 1843 for the artist's heirs . And after all that , the statue was placed in Trafalgar Square , where there is another pedestal , ready for a similar ...
... statue was not paid for until repeated requests to Parlia- ment produced the money in 1843 for the artist's heirs . And after all that , the statue was placed in Trafalgar Square , where there is another pedestal , ready for a similar ...
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... statue which is now there . It is an equestrian figure of Charles I , the King whose head was lopped off in Whitehall by Cromwell's Puritans in 1649 . The statue was made in 1633 ( the date and the sculptor's name , Le Sueur , are still ...
... statue which is now there . It is an equestrian figure of Charles I , the King whose head was lopped off in Whitehall by Cromwell's Puritans in 1649 . The statue was made in 1633 ( the date and the sculptor's name , Le Sueur , are still ...
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A PREFATORY RAMBLE | 3 |
THE LONDON OF PATER TAMESIS | 17 |
THE LONDON OF DICK WHITTINGTON | 37 |
Urheberrecht | |
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